VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
Efficient and Secure Platform for your Hybrid Cloud

Next-Gen Infrastructure Image Management

Manage infrastructure images to patch, update or upgrade ESXi clusters using a desired state model (NEW)

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vCenter Server Profiles

Desired state config management capabilities for vCenter Server. It helps the user to define/validate/apply configuration for multiple vCenter Servers (NEW)

vCenter Server STD

vCenter Server Update Planner

Manage the compatibility & interoperability for vCenter Server for upgrade scenarios. We will allow users to generate the interoperability & pre-checks report, which will help them plan for upgrades (NEW)

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Content Library

Added administrative control and versioning support. Provides simple and effective centralized management for virtual machine templates, virtual appliances, ISO images and scripts.

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APIs for Storage Awareness

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Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing

Improves performance, reliability, and scalability by leveraging efficient array-based operations and third-party storage vendor multipath software capabilities

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Distributed Switch™

Centralizes provisioning, administration, and monitoring by using cluster-level network aggregation.

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Host Profiles and Auto Deploy™

Captures host-level configuration settings and saves them as a template to configure other vSphere hosts. Monitors hosts for configuration changes and automatically alerts vSphere administrators if a host falls out of compliance.

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Virtual Volumes™

Virtualizes external storage (SAN and NAS) and provides VM-aware, policy-based storage management through vCenter.

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Identity federation with ADFS

Secure access and account management (NEW)

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vSphere Trust Authority

Remote attestation for sensitive workloads (NEW)

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TPM 2.0 Support & Virtual TPM

Supports TPM 2.0 hardware modules and adds a virtual TPM device to shield guest OS from Operator or in-guest attacks.

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FIPS 140-2 Compliance & TLS 1.2 Support Default Enhanced security compliance

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Virtual Machine Encryption

Data-at-rest encryption for virtual machine data and disks

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Support for MSFT VBS

Supports Windows 10 and Windows 2016 security features, like Credential Guard, on vSphere

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Per-VM Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

Allows seamless migration across different CPUs across the hybrid cloud by persisting the EVC mode per-VM during migrations across clusters and during power cycles.

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Instant Clone

Reduces provisioning times, especially beneficial for VDI applications

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vSphere Bitfusion

Delivery of AI/ML infrastructure applications using GPUs.

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(Add-on required)¹

Distributed Resource Scheduler™(DRS)

Redesigned with a more workload centric approach, DRS balances resources allocated to workloads in a vSphere cluster; versus the previously used cluster-wide deviation model; also resulting in an improved cycle time.

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Storage DRS™

Automated load balancing now looks at storage characteristics to determine the best place for a given virtual machine’s data when it is created and used overtime.

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Distributed Power Management™ (DPM)

Optimizes power consumption by turning off hosts during periods of reduced demand.

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Storage Policy-Based Management

Allows common management across storage tiers and dynamic storage class-of-service automation via a policy-driven control plane

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I/O Controls (Network and Storage)

Prioritizes storage and Network access by continuously monitoring I/O load of a storage volume and over the network, and dynamically allocating available I/O resources to virtual machines according to business needs.

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Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Support

Allows one PCI Express (PCIe) adapter to be presented as multiple separate logical devices to virtual machines. Allows users to offload I/O processing and reduce network latency.

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vSphere Persistent Memory

Leverages Persistent Memory to get DRAM like performance with flash like prices.

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NVIDIA GRID vGPU

Enables native 2D and 3D graphics performance for virtual machines. Supports multiple vGPUs per VM

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Proactive HA

Receive server health information and migrate virtual machines from degraded hosts before problems occur.

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Accelerated Graphics for Virtual Machines

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Dynamic DirectPath IO

Support for vGPU and DirectPath I/O initial VM placement

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vSphere Hypervisor

Provides a robust, production-proven, high-performance virtualization layer

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vMotion®

Enables live migration of virtual machines with no disruption to users or loss of service, eliminating the need to schedule application downtime for planned server maintenance. The recent enhancements in vMotion logic provides non-disruptive operations, irrespective of the size of VMs, specifically for large and mission critical workloads.

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vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode

Enables unified visibility and management across on-premises vCenter and vCenter on a vSphere enabled cloud such as VMware Cloud™ on AWS.

vCenter Server STD

vCenter Server STD

vSMP

Virtual symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) enables virtual machines to have multiple virtual CPUs

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High Availability (HA)

Automatically restarts your VMs following physical machine failure

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Storage vMotion®

Avoids application downtime for planned storage maintenance by migrating live virtual machine disk files across storage arrays

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Fault Tolerance

Provides continuous availability of any application in the event of a hardware failure— with no data loss or downtime. For workloads up to 4-vCPU.

2-vCPU

8-vCPU

vShield Endpoint™

Secures virtual machines with offloaded anti-virus and anti-malware solutions, without the need for agents inside the virtual machine.

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vSphere Replication™

Enables efficient, array-agnostic replication of virtual machine data over the LAN or

WAN, and simplifies management by enabling replication at the virtual machine level

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Support for 4K Native Storage

Enhances platform scalability by leveraging high capacity drives. Reduce CAPEX.

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vSphere Quick Boot

Skips hardware initialization steps and dramatically reduces time required for patching and upgrades.

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vCenter® High Availability

Native vCenter Server availability

vCenter Server STD

vCenter Server STD

vCenter Backup and Restore

Native vCenter Server backup and restore

vCenter Server STD

vCenter Server STD

vCenter Server Appliance™ Migration

A tool for single-step migration and upgrade of existing Windows vCenter deployments to vCenter Server Appliance.

vCenter Server STD

vCenter Server STD

vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode

Enables unified visibility and management across on-premises vCenter and vCenter on a vSphere enabled cloud such as VMware Cloud™ on AWS.

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Cross vCenter Server / Long Distance / Cross Cloud

Cross vCenter Mixed Version Provisioning

Uses different vCenter versions across on-premises and vSphere based public cloud environments, while allowing provisioning operations such as vMotion, Full Clone and Cold Migrate to continue on seamlessly.

vCenter Server STD

vCenter Server STD

Hot and Cold Migration to the Cloud

Supports hot and cold migration of workloads across the hybrid cloud.

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Per VM Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

Allows seamless migration across different CPUs across the hybrid cloud by persisting the EVC mode per-VM during migrations across clusters and during power cycles.

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